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Civic chief inspects diarrhoea-hit areas
Municipal Commissioner J Nivas on Sunday inspected the diarrhoea-hit areas at Bhavanipuram where six persons fell ill. But most of them are recovered from illness. They were treated at a corporate hospital in Bhavanipuram.
Vijayawada: Municipal Commissioner J Nivas on Sunday inspected the diarrhoea-hit areas at Bhavanipuram where six persons fell ill. But most of them are recovered from illness. They were treated at a corporate hospital in Bhavanipuram.
Seventy families are living in a small locality adjacent to Food Corporation of India godown in Bhavanipuram. One G Subbamma, Lingala Ramana, Mutyalamma, K Simhadri and R App Rao and a child fell ill after drinking contaminated water.
Municipal Commissioner J Nivas visited Bhavanipuram on Sunday and assured the residents of rendering assistance to the victims and changing drinking water pipeline to check contamination of water. He said only one person was undergoing treatment at a corporate hospital in Bhavanipuram on Sunday and he would be discharged soon.
On Saturday, Chief Medical and Health officer K Arjuna Rao, AM and HO Md Iqbal Hussain, engineers inspected the area and noticed some leakages to the water pipelines.
Dr Arjuna Rao informed that the some persons were suffering from diarrhoea between March 6 and 8 and most of them recovered. He said leakages would be repaired at the earliest and the situation was under control.
Residents of Kamakoti Nagar, Labour colony, KL Rao Nagar, Cheruvu Centre and others areas panicked with the possibility of outbreak of diarrhoea as storm water drainage works were going on in these areas.
Drinking water pipelines may get damaged leading to contamination of water in the pipelines. Drinking water pipelines were laid many decades ago in these areas. Public health department taken up the construction of storm water drains at a cost of Rs 450 crore in the city and works are going on in different parts of the city for the past 10 months.
